Bridge Schools Inspectorate is a schools inspection agency approved by the British Government to carry out inspections of certain independent schools on behalf of the Secretary of State in the Department for Education (DfE). The agency was approved in 2008 and operates within section 162 (A) of the Education Act 2002. Schools within the BSI mandate are designated independent schools within membership of the Christian Schools Trust (CST) or the Association of Muslim Schools UK (AMSUK). As of September 2009, 55 schools in the UK that provide a distinctive religious curriculum alongside secular studies, fall within the remit of the BSI.

The work of the BSI, which is monitored by Ofsted

Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....

, is to report its findings to the Department for Education on whether the schools fulfil the government's requirements and whether its religious content conforms to the requirements of their religious associations. Inspections are carried out by retired HMI schools inspectors.